Why most black women care more about black issues than women issues

Sure you have a couple of black feminists, but its highly uncommon. Every now and then a black woman will correct a black guy's chauvinistic remark.

But for the most part black women have always put the issues of the black race before issues of being a woman. Why?

Women's voting is a great example. Black me got the right to vote before women did...but due to poll taxes and racists (specifically KKK members) they could not vote, not if they wanted to live to see the next day.

There were some black female activists lobbying for womens' right to vote, such as Sojourner Truth and Mary McLeod Bethune.

But when women got the right to vote in the 1920s, black women still could not vote, although legally they could, whites would find ways to prevent them from voting.

This is apparent in what Rosa Parks was put through when she had tried to register to vote and had to take a test and even though she passed, the white woman would intentionally fail her so she could not register.

So that is why most black women put the issues of the black race before the issues of being a woman. Its because it doesn't change the situation. Getting equal pay as a female at a job doesn't mean much if you are not being hired or equally paid for being black.

Its not that the issues that women face are not important to black women, it surely is and we all surely care as black women, but the problem is that black women suffer from 2 problems: race and gender...and race has always had more impact on black women, who have always had to work harder than most white women throughout history due to the conditions they and their families automatically had to suffer for being black.

When the Anthony Sowell case happened white women were saying that the police were negligent because they were women...but the black community knew the truth was because they were black, and worse, they were black women, the least prized in American socity.

Black women care more about the race issue because its often more detrimental. One cannot change their race.